Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation The Endless Seven-Day Journey

Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation – The Endless Seven-Day Journey is a 2021 adventure game developed by Neos, Millennium Kitchen, and Star Factory, and designed and written by Kaz Ayabe. Based on the manga and anime series Crayon Shin-chan, the game has been described as a spiritual successor to the video game series Boku no Natsuyasumi ('My Summer Vacation'), directed by Ayabe and developed by Millennium Kitchen. Like Boku no Natsuyasumi, Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation follows the player character as he spends his summer vacation in an open-ended environment with few set gameplay goals or obligations. Planning for Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation began in 2018, when Neos producer Akira Nagashima conceived of a game concept combining elements from Crayon Shin-chan and Boku no Natsuyasumi, and formally approached Ayabe about developing the project in 2019. Much of the development team for Ayabe's previous title, 2013's Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale, returned to develop Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation. The graphic style of the game is distinguished by its juxtaposition of the two-dimensional and deformed designs of the Crayon Shin-chan characters with detailed, hand-drawn backgrounds. Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation was released in Japan for the Nintendo Switch on July 15, 2021, and worldwide for Switch, PlayStation 4, and Windows in August 2022. The game received generally favorable reviews from critics who, while broadly assessing the title as less strong than entries in the Boku no Natsuyasumi series, praised Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation for its visual style, atmosphere, and adaptation of the Crayon Shin-chan source material. A stand-alone sequel video game, Shin-chan: Shiro and the Coal Town, was released on October 23, 2024.